Cowley County History Resources
(a view of the indices of the CD)
Including; Diaries of C. M. Scott, 1924 Winfield History Project,
and Newspapers
With stories of Murder, Lynching, Bootleggers, Ladies of the Night, Wild
Indians,
Cowboys, Cattle, Race Horses, Balloon Ascents, Fairs, Parks, Lawyers, Politicians,
Miners, Oil Men, Gun Fights, Rustling, Drunks, Prohibition, Aviation, Education,
Invention, Philosophy, Religion, Railroads, Bond Issues and Financial Skullduggery.
A Compact Disk by: Richard Kay and Mary Ann Wortman & William
W. Bottorff
The Files are collected into the following directories:
(some of these files are already
on this web site in other locations)
- FLYERS and other Topics, Includes 1924
Winfield History Project of Senior Class
- PAPERS Main Base of Newspaper Files
Date Sequential Index to Cowley County Newspapers
on CD ROM
(These are the source files as key entered from
microfilm by Mary Ann Wortman and are the most important resource on this
CD)
- PAPERS2 Files that have been reworked
recently (spelling check etc.)
- subjects Accumulations on Various
Topics by WWB
- WORTMAN Luella Moncravie Murder Trial
and Aftermath, Santa Fe in Ark City, Hunting trips to the Territory.
- WORTMAW Indian Topics, Includes;
C. M. Scott Diaries; Speech by Ralph J. Weeks, Pawnee Indian Boy, June
20, 1883; Cowley Connection to Black Hills etc.
- WORTWIN Topics collected by Richard
Kay and Mary Ann Wortman.
These are the Old Newspaper files that Mary Ann Wortman and her late
husband Richard Kay Wortman have been preparing for the last decade. This
body of information provided much of the material in their book "The
History of Cowley County; Part I". There is a gold mine of stories
buried in these old papers. Looking at them on microfilm has always been
problematic. It is hard to read, cumbersome to handle and requires a reader
which most people don't have at home. On CD ROM it is many time more convenient
and much faster. But the real advantage is to use the computers search capability
to quickly locate information by keyword or family name.
Authors will find it much easier to trace forward and backward from an
event to put it into the context of the time and place. Genealogists will
find it much easier to check a broader range of dates in a work session.
Contacts:
Mary Ann Wortman <trainman@hit.net>
Bill Bottorff <bbott@ausbcomp.com>
References:
- The History
of Cowley County, Part I
(http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/wortman/index.html)
- Intro to
Photographs of Cowley County
(http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/winrr/index.html)
- Winfield
High Viking '58 Home Page
(http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/whviking/vindex.htm)
- Articles
from the Archives of the Winfield Courier
(http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/courier/cindex.htm)
- Winfield Courier On Line
(http://www.hit.net/courier/)
- Winfield,
Kansas and Cowley County